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This popped up in my town. Anything to look out for? Is it a decent desk or trash?
This popped up in my town. Anything to look out for? Is it a decent desk or trash?
Does anyone remember the Allen & Heath SRM console?
- Thread starter Tim Weaver
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Re: Does anyone remember the Allen & Heath SRM console?
At that price and with those features it's certainly worth the $$$ if it checks out as functional.
At that price and with those features it's certainly worth the $$$ if it checks out as functional.
Gus Housen
Freshman
Re: Does anyone remember the Allen & Heath SRM console?
I had a 16 ch FOH vertion of this console, In general i really liked it. The only thing it didnt like was the cosole ch really needed a pad for things like keys and bass. If you inserted a compressor you could usually dial it down but i also made some TRS barrel plugs with I think it was a 25db pad for the inserts and some for the xlr's inputs as well. i heard there was a later vertion that added the pad. I remember liking it better than the hill B# or the soundcraft200 i had because on those boards esp the B3 it was a crap shoot if all the channels worked when you moved it
If i had a fair priced repair guy ( wich i do) I would buy it. I would check it out pretty extensively though before I bought it
I had a 16 ch FOH vertion of this console, In general i really liked it. The only thing it didnt like was the cosole ch really needed a pad for things like keys and bass. If you inserted a compressor you could usually dial it down but i also made some TRS barrel plugs with I think it was a 25db pad for the inserts and some for the xlr's inputs as well. i heard there was a later vertion that added the pad. I remember liking it better than the hill B# or the soundcraft200 i had because on those boards esp the B3 it was a crap shoot if all the channels worked when you moved it
If i had a fair priced repair guy ( wich i do) I would buy it. I would check it out pretty extensively though before I bought it
Re: Does anyone remember the Allen & Heath SRM console?
I remember the FOH version there was one in a church near me and it seemed to work well for years, as Gus says the gain structure would probably be a little unforgiving with modern DIs and instruments but that should be easy to fix wit some pad barrels. The one I'm talking about is still lurking in the youth hall of the church last I saw it only one channel was totally dead and that was because someone had ripped the knobs of chann 1 with the case lid. Probabaly worth a punt G
I remember the FOH version there was one in a church near me and it seemed to work well for years, as Gus says the gain structure would probably be a little unforgiving with modern DIs and instruments but that should be easy to fix wit some pad barrels. The one I'm talking about is still lurking in the youth hall of the church last I saw it only one channel was totally dead and that was because someone had ripped the knobs of chann 1 with the case lid. Probabaly worth a punt G
Re: Does anyone remember the Allen & Heath SRM console?
Tim,
Remember it, I designed it! (Let's see how much I actually remember..., this goes back over 25 years)
Chuck & I were still working on the (dummy) prototype in the hotel room the night before its first showing (probably at NAMM).
Pots & switches stuck onto pieces of corrugated and then hot-glued onto the inside of the metalwork...
Built into a roadcase, it was a heavy beast. First armrest was white, looked terrible so we painted it black for the show.
Basic circuitry based on the other A&H products at the time, so it should perform like other "British" consoles of that era.
I think the audio busing was actually tinned copper bus wire soldered to the individual channel cards, so no ribbon problems
Things to worry about:
Lots of electrolytic caps in there; some may have dried out and will give you poor low-freq response.
Power supply was an external MPS-8 (I think), stored it under the hinged armrest (clever). Those have been known to fail over time.
General wearing-out of the controls. The Seller says it's been in-use up til now, so the controls have gotten some recent exercise (good).
Specific parts for repair will be hard to source (pots mainly).
But, for $250, how could you go wrong!
JP (Ex-A&H)
Tim,
Remember it, I designed it! (Let's see how much I actually remember..., this goes back over 25 years)
Chuck & I were still working on the (dummy) prototype in the hotel room the night before its first showing (probably at NAMM).
Pots & switches stuck onto pieces of corrugated and then hot-glued onto the inside of the metalwork...
Built into a roadcase, it was a heavy beast. First armrest was white, looked terrible so we painted it black for the show.
Basic circuitry based on the other A&H products at the time, so it should perform like other "British" consoles of that era.
I think the audio busing was actually tinned copper bus wire soldered to the individual channel cards, so no ribbon problems
Things to worry about:
Lots of electrolytic caps in there; some may have dried out and will give you poor low-freq response.
Power supply was an external MPS-8 (I think), stored it under the hinged armrest (clever). Those have been known to fail over time.
General wearing-out of the controls. The Seller says it's been in-use up til now, so the controls have gotten some recent exercise (good).
Specific parts for repair will be hard to source (pots mainly).
But, for $250, how could you go wrong!
JP (Ex-A&H)
Jeff Hague
Freshman
Re: Does anyone remember the Allen & Heath SRM console?
I used the FOH version of that board for quite a while in the late 80s and early 90s (couldnt afford a Hill...) and it was a nice board. It sounded good and I didnt have any problems with it.
I used the FOH version of that board for quite a while in the late 80s and early 90s (couldnt afford a Hill...) and it was a nice board. It sounded good and I didnt have any problems with it.
